Wed Jan 09, 2013 at 12:00:00 PM CST

How low can they go? Over the weekend, Public Policy Polling measured the popularity of Congress against 26 different things. The good news? Congress is more popular than Ebola, Fidel Castro, meth labs, & North Korea.

But less popular than traffic jams, used car salesmen, colonoscopies, and even Donald Trump (although that result was pretty close).

"In every swing state, its final presidential polls were validated Tuesday night as PPP reported the correct winner in all 9 battlegrounds and in the 3 other states (Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania) that the Romney campaign feinted toward.

Previous polls have measured Congress' approval rating with a simple approve/disapprove question. A survey last fall found it to be 3.5% - well within the poll's 5% margin of error. PPP decided to approach the subject from a different angle:

We've seen poll after poll after poll over the last year talking about how unpopular Congress is but really, what's the difference between an 11% or a 9% or a 7% favorability rating? So we decided to take a different approach and test Congress' popularity against 26 different things. And what we found is that Congress is less popular than cockroaches, traffic jams, and even Nickelback.